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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Thursday, February 20, 2003

Education briefs

Advertiser Staff and News Services

Reading group seeks volunteers

Kalihi Reads Together, a cadre of community organizations and school representatives, is looking for Samoan and Filipino volunteers to read culturally themed children's stories or share ethnic music and dance at Farrington complex elementary schools in March, April and May.

The next culturally themed read-aloud event will showcase Samoan and Filipino cultures and will be at Kalihi-Waena Elementary School on March 10.

Those interested in participating should call Sylvia Hara-Nielsen or Jayla Fernandez at Farrington High School's School-to-Work Center, 832-3388.


Preschool plans Purim celebrations

The Honolulu Community Jewish Preschool is holding a "Heavenly Hamantaschen" fund-raiser March 14 and 16 to celebrate the holiday of Purim and to help with the upkeep of the school's facilities.

Parents, friends and faculty will prepare and sell hamantaschen, triangular pastries filled with fruit or poppy seeds, for $8 a dozen.

The holiday of Purim commemorates the deliverance of the Jews of Persia by Queen Esther. The Hebrew name, Purim, has come to mean "Feast of Lots" and recalls the escape of Jewish people from persecution.

Orders for hamantaschen are being accepted until March 7 by calling the Honolulu Community Jewish Preschool at 595-7451.

The Honolulu Community Jewish Preschool is the preschool of Temple Emanu-El.

Correction: The Purim Carnival scheduled for March 16 is open only to students of the Temple Emanu-El Religious School. A previous version of this brief was incorrect.

Internet safety workshop planned

"Internet Safety and Your Child," a free workshop for parents, will be held at the Pearl City Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Library staff will present safety tips for parents whose children explore the Internet.

Parents can register by calling the library or visiting the children's reference desk.

Pearl City Public Library is at 1138 Waimano Home Road next to the Pearl City Police Station. For more information, call the library at 453-6566.


Arts conference to be held March 8

The Statewide Conference on Arts Education will be held March 8 at Paliku Theatre at Windward Community College.

Arthur W. Harvey of the University of Hawai'i-Manoa music department will present "The B.A.C.H. Effect — Becoming a Complete Human Through the Arts" and Liz Lerman, director of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in Takoma Park, Md., will present "Hiking the Horizontal" in the morning session.

Breakout sessions will be given by Deb Brzoska, Warren Newman, Lynda Taira, Vivien Lee, Rae Takemoto, Diane Fallis Peters, Gail Kuba, Linda Holt and Morlee Hall.

The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange will present a performance at 7:30 p.m. in the Paliku Theatre; tickets are $15 and $20. For information, call 956-6878.

Registration for the conference costs $35. Call the University of Hawai'i Conference Center at 956-8204 for information.

The conference is presented by the Arts in Education program of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and by the Hawai'i Arts Education Partners.